SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - White Supremacy, Institutional Racism, Protestantism
Document Summary
The oriental is the other, as in the conquerable object of fantasy and the inferior party in negotiations. Thematic stereotype and all sexual fantasizing (men are depicted as feminine and weak, yet strangely dangerous to white women/ women are both eager to be dominated and exotic) Subjection of subordinate groups is accompanied by mythologies (fanciful narratives) Images, figures of speech or troupes are used to suggest that a group is different from us". Images a writer can reasonably expect to find present in the audience"s mind. Social process of identifying and stressing racial or ethnic differences. Highlights the social imagining construction and performance of physical differences. People with physical/ genetic characteristics that are deemed to produce differences in appearances. People who consider themselves to share common characteristics that distinguish them from groups in society. In 1950-1960s, canadian elites were mainly people with wasp( white anglo-saxan protestant) background. Non-wasps were locked into inferior economic position after immigration.
